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Home routers with little to no security are far too common. They’re dangerous from a number of perspectives: as peeping holes for spying on people’s daily web use, for filtering stolen files and for launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, where the power of combined compromised machines is used to flood target websites with traffic, thereby knocking them […]
Trend Micro reports that 6.1 million devices are affected.A 3-year-old bug in the Portable SDK for UPnP Devices, also called libupnp, is present in millions of modern-day smart TVs, Internet routers, and smartphones, security research firm Trend Micro reports. Ironically, the bug itself was patched in December 2012, but developers of various mobile applications, smart […]
For hackers, routers are an easy target, perhaps because they are seldom updated and virus-scanned and are also easily cracked. But shockingly, a report from Symantec claims that a new router virus may make devices safer. A bug that is dubbed ‘Linux.Wifatch’ is like a normal malware and also behaves like one: infecting vulnerable devices, […]
It has always been believed that Cisco routers being used in the enterprise environment could be hacked via installation of backdoor firmware, but it was always just a theory. Now, security researchers over at Mandiant, an American cyber security firm and a FireEye company, have confirmed that hacking of Cisco routers through backdoor firmware installations […]
Wireless Networking (Wi-Fi) has made it so easy for anyone to use Internet on your computer, mobile phones, tablets and other wireless devices anywhere in the house without the clutter of cables. With traditional wired networks, it is extremely difficult for someone to steal your bandwidth but the big problem with wireless signals is that […]
ProofPoint researchers released a report on Tuesday, which revealed that cybercriminals are now hijacking the Brazilian internet connections by altering their DNS (domain name system) settings. These kinds of attacks are termed as pharming attacks. Pharming Attakcs: Pharming attacks are designed to attract victims towards fake websites. These fake websites are usually replicas of banks […]